BlackRock clients have added nearly $284 million worth of Bitcoin exposure in a single day. The inflow came through BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF, showing strong institutional demand. JUST IN: BlackRock clients buy $283.96 million worth of $BTC. pic.twitter.com/KFsMXDiCjs — Whale Insider (@WhaleInsider) April 18, 2026 This move did not happen in isolation. Total Bitcoin ETF
In his latest video, Benjamin Cowen, a leading analyst in the cryptocurrency market, evaluated Bitcoin’s current price movements using historical data and “seasonality.” Analyzing Bitcoin’s return to the $77,000 level, Cowen warned investors about potential weakness in the coming weeks. Cowen noted that Bitcoin’s current trajectory bears striking similarities to the “US midterm election years”
Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has criticized U.S. President Donald Trump, accusing him of making “seven false claims in one hour” and warning that the Strait of Hormuz may not remain open if the U.S. blockade continues. The statement comes just a day after Iran’s announcement to complete the opening of the Strait of
Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded nearly $1 billion in net inflows over the past week, marking their strongest performance in more than three months as market sentiment shifts toward risk assets. Data from SoSoValue shows that spot Bitcoin ($BTC) ETFs attracted $996 muillion in total net inflows last week, the highest weekly intake since
Gold had a 5,000-year head start. Bitcoin is 16 years old. And as Bitcoin crossed $77,000 this week, a striking data point is back in focus – more Americans own Bitcoin than gold. River’s US Bitcoin adoption report, drawing on data from The Nakamoto Project and the Gold IRA Guide, puts the number at 50
This week gave beaten-up stock names a strange new job. They stopped acting like laggards and started leading the screen. Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) came into Friday on track for huge weekly gains, the kind that reset charts and force traders to stop laughing at names they had written
Bitcoin rallied hard after Iran said it was reopening the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping. Bitcoin hit the highest level since February, oil prices dropped, Wall Street notched another record, and the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield slipped to 4.24%. But here’s the catch: markets acted as if the reopening had solved the core standoff
Global financial giant UBS has published a noteworthy assessment of US monetary policy. The bank stated that it maintains its expectation that the Fed will cut interest rates later in the year. A research note published by UBS emphasized that the Fed remains on a path of monetary policy easing under the current outlook. The
Bitcoin surged on April 17 after the US President Donald Trump said the Strait of Hormuz was open again and shipping passage was being restored. In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote that Iran had announced the strait was “fully open and ready for full passage.” He added that sea mines had been removed, or
OpenLedger, a renowned blockchain AI infrastructure entity, has announced an exclusive project, OctoClaw. OctoClaw serves as a cutting-edge and intuitive AI agent to streamline and organize complicated workflows. As OpenLedger disclosed in its official social media announcement, OctoClaw’s launch underscores a key move in connecting research, automation, execution, and generation within an inclusive platform. Additionally,